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Hello there!
Tuesday Tips, Tricks and Tutorials is a new series of articles that will show up in the group on every last Tuesday of the month. Since a big part of learning how to create art is using knowledge freely shared by others, we decided to ask members of the DeviantART community to do exactly that - share. Every last Tuesday of the month, we're going to be posting an article created in collaboration with some awesome artists, asking them for advice for anyone struggling with the subject of the month, and about their own journey of self-improvement.

Besides that, we'll be sharing our own additional tips, and gathering resources both from DA and outside of it, with the goal of creating a big knowledge base that could serve all members of the group.

Want to contribute to an article? Do you know any useful tutorials/websites/people who could share their knowledge? Let us know! We'll be posting a schedule for the coming months in the next few days!
Let's learn together!
We wrote to some fantastic folks who, a while back, decided to share their hair painting knowledge in the form of tutorials. We asked them all the same set of follow-up questions, curious about how did their knowledge and work evolve since then. Here they are - meet sara-hel and @MagicnaAnavi !

sara-hel
Digital Artist from Lebanon who creates nostalgic images filled with emotion.

Sara's tutorial: Drawing hair with a tablet

1. What did you learn on the subject since you wrote the tutorial?
I learned to follow the same technique in all future photomanipulations.

2. What was the most difficult thing for you in learning how to paint hair?
It was so difficult trying to paint with a mouse before I got my graphics tablet.

3. What are the common beginner mistakes that you see? Did you make them too?
Not having a graphics tablet made me download hair brushes that are ready to just paste onto the model. The color looked so solid with no details or depth.

4. What method of learning proved most effective for you?
After getting my graphics tablet, I preferred following one same technique:

When extracting the model I don’t have to cut her hair perfectly, because I will go through some steps later on. I create a color palette of 4 to 5 colors, using the eyedropper and sampling colors from the hair of the model. Then I create a layer below her and call it “Hair base”. I paint with a large soft rounded brush for the general movement or shape of the hair, using the darkest color of the palette. I create another layer above the model and paint with very small brushes using the rest of the colors in the palette. At the end, I create a layer above all hair layers, set it to overlay or soft light and use a large soft round brush again and paint with black and white to define shadows and highlights.

5. Do you use any special brushes?
In addition to the round brush, I currently use the hair brush from DanLuVisiArt . Here’s the link to it: fav.me/d1ytm3r

6. Are there any other tutorials or resources that you'd like to recommend?
This one fav.me/d5d5usm . I also recommend viewing this one www.facebook.com/OmarRodriguez… . The technique is different from mine, but I really like it.

7. Do you have any additional tips or tricks that you'd like to share?
If someone is not very experienced with hair drawing, they can research images of models with blowing hair, for example, and try to imitate the movement.

@MagicnaAnavi
A digital painter from Serbia who creates stunning female portraits.

Ivana's tutorial: Painting realistic hair tutorial

1. What did you learn on the subject since you wrote the tutorial?

Painting realistic hair is one of those things that will always be hard for me to do. I still struggle with it sometimes. I mostly still keep to the tutorial steps, with addition of repeating step 8 quite a bit more, and sometimes taking whole sections of background layer, placing it on top of the hair, with layer mode changed to low fill overlay.

2. What was the most difficult thing for you in learning how to paint hair?

The hardest thing was/is to find that balance, mostly not to over-do the details or make it look too flat.

3. What are the common beginner mistakes that you see? Did you make them too?

Using only few colors to paint the whole thing. Using soft brush for the most part, not taking care about lights and shadows. Yes, I definitely am guilty of all these too.

4. What method of learning proved most effective for you?

4. I tried quite a few ways of painting hair, I remember reading this tutorial in ImagineFX and after trying it out, I liked the result. So every time I would paint hair I adapted that method to match my art style, alongside all of the bits and pieces of various advises and tutorials found through DeviantArt. And it kinda evolved in what I have today.

5. Do you use any special brushes?

(There's a download link for brushes in artist's comments below the tutorial)

6. Are there any other tutorials or resources that you'd like to recommend?

Yes, this tutorial:

www.deviantart.com/art/Hair-pa…

7. Do you have any additional tips or tricks that you'd like to share?

Practice, experiment and don't be afraid to use bold colors. Make sure to check your value (quick way to do so is to fill new layer with #000000 and change mode to color).

Tips & Tricks from us:

  There's a skull under the hair - remember to keep the shape of the head while painting.

  If your character is moving, then the hair is likely to be pulled in the opposite direction.

Stock above by the awesome faestock .

  Hair isn't stiff - it's very flexible and light, so it flows, it curls, and is easily affected by wind, water, various obstacles and other parts of the environment. Remember to think in curves.

One of the common beginner mistakes is to paint hair either as a one big shape or overdo the details and draw each single hair separately. Don't do either of these - paint hair in locks or bigger strands.

The further your character is from the viewer, the less detail should be visible on their hair.

The longer the hair of your character is, the heavier it is, and therefore less responsive to movement, for example wind.

Remember your environment - where does your light come from? Is is strong? Is it weak? Is there more than one light source?
Colours interact with each other, so if your hair colour scheme isn't working, take a look at your character's surroundings - what sort of colours are dominant in the shadows, the highlights, the midtones? How contrasted are they? How saturated? Try colour picking with the Eyedropper Tool and creating a colour palette. If the hair colours differ too much, try modifying them to be a bit more similar to the environment.

Use references - if you're not sure how your character's hair should behave in the scene, try looking for reference photos to look at while painting. You can use DA, various other stock sites like Pexels, Unsplash, VisualHunt, or even Pinterest to find inspiration. Remember that references are not stock images, though, and should be used only as inspiration, and not directly as a part of your work.

Some references:

Sources: pixabay.com, pexels.com, visualhunt.com

Try using Gradient Maps if you just want to change your character's hair colour - here's a tutorial on how to use them: gejda.deviantart.com/journal/G…

Take your time. Painting realistically is never quick and easy, and takes a lot of study and practice, so don't be discuraged if it takes you more time than you expected to achieve satisfying results. You have to learn how to walk before you can run - be patient. If you feel that something's still not right with what you painted, go back to the basics. Analyse the movement of the hair, find some references, check the colours and lighting.

Additional Resources

From DeviantART:

... and more!

From outside of DeviantART:
MuddyColours.com - bit.ly/2FkqO8x by Serge Birault
Paintable.cc - bit.ly/2ohrvIf, bit.ly/2GzlBcl
3dtotal.com - bit.ly/2EHL8mZ
Theetheringtonbrothers: bit.ly/2BHmNuR
Tumblr: bit.ly/2BHt21Q by XZ-Art
bit.ly/2FkrCdz, bit.ly/2EIOG8R, bit.ly/2C9ZStd by Thundercluck Blog
bit.ly/2sMpk4l by mannequin-atelier or Kasia Słupecka
Discuss!
Did you learn something new thanks to this article? Do you have any tips & tricks of your own that you'd like to add? Did you make, or are you still making any of the common beginner mistakes (if you are, don't worry - you're not alone!)? What's your best hair-painting example that you're really proud of? Feel free to share!

Or maybe is there anything you'd like us to focus on in the next articles of this series? Let us know in the comments!

Stock credits for the article:
faestock //  pexels.com //  unsplash.com //  visualhunt.com: giulianoboiti / CC BY-NC-SA //  pixabay.com

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